Just when you thought stories about security problems at Los Alamos National Laboratory couldn't get any worse--or weirder--comes news that authorities just discovered that a guy's been living in a cave on the top-secret lab's property for years. And it's not like he was hunkered down in Saddam's rabbit hole, either. The cave features such amenities as a glass door, a wood-burning stove, and solar panels connected to car batteries for electricity--oh, and "numerous" marijuana plants, too.

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